Alkan's "The Railway." If boats are included, both Beethoven and Mendelssohn wrote pieces based on Goethe's poem "Meeresstille und glueckliche Fahrt." Some examples of nonmechanized transportation also come to mind: For instance, Grofe's Death Valley Suite evokes the image of a wagon train, and Muss...

The value of 182 cents corresponds to a ratio of 10/9, not 9/8. Of course, if C is a frequency of 1, D is 9/8, and E is 5/4 (the "ideal" value for a major third), then the ratio between E and D is 10/9. Maybe this is what was intended.

Herr Diabelli invited quite a few composers to come forth to write variations on his simple tune, including Franz Schubert. I believe some of them came up with just one variation, Diabelli's original plan was to publish one variation each from prominent composers. He intended this as a promotion fo...

But I'm not a lawyer, and it seems to me that other considerations of common sense should have been considered, and were not. And it was, as I see it, up to the lawyers - on one side or another - to come up with a way to avoid what turned out to be a long and draining result. But that's what makes ...

Corlyss_D wrote: I don't recall reading anywhere that it was his only professional outlet or even a major source of income. That's what makes the lengths to which he was willing to go so appalling. It certainly was his major source of income. All members of the quartet had full time positions at Vi...

The parties in the Audubon Quartet have reached a settlement, ending the legal dispute. For legal reasons, the settlement cannot take full effect until deadlines for claims (which could theoretically still be brought by yet unknown creditors) are expired. As announced previously, Shaw and Lederer wi...

My web site has already been cited in this thread: http://hometown.aol.com/renardym Many of the original court documents and other facts on the history of this case are available there. I would like to address one particular point that has been raised in this thread: The Bergonzi violin was for Ehrl...